Jay Robert Inslee is an American politician, lawyer, and economist who has served as the 23rd governor of Washington since 2013.
87 Facts About Jay Inslee
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Jay Inslee is the longest-serving current governor in the United States.
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Jay Inslee served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993.
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In 1992, Jay Inslee was elected to represent, based around Central Washington, in the US House of Representatives.
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Jay Inslee then served as regional director for the United States Department of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton.
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Jay Inslee returned to the US House of Representatives in 1999, this time for.
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Jay Inslee was reelected six times before announcing that he would make another run for the governorship in the 2012 election.
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Jay Inslee resigned from Congress to focus on his campaign.
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Jay Inslee served as chair of the Democratic Governors Association for the 2018 election cycle.
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Jay Inslee was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in the 2020 election, launching his campaign on March 1,2019.
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Jay Inslee has garnered national attention for his critiques of President Donald Trump.
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Jay Inslee joined state attorney general Bob Ferguson and state solicitor general Noah Purcell in suing the Trump administration over Executive Order 13769, which halted travel for 90 days from seven Muslim-majority countries and imposed a total ban on Syrian refugees entering the United States.
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Jay Robert Inslee was born February 9,1951, in Seattle, Washington, the oldest of three sons of Adele A and Frank E Inslee.
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Jay Inslee's mother worked as a sales clerk at Sears.
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Jay Inslee's father was a well-known high school counselor and football coach, teaching at Tenino High School, Garfield High School and Chief Sealth High School.
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Frank Jay Inslee later became the athletic director for Seattle Public Schools.
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Jay Inslee describes his family as being of English and Welsh descent.
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Jay Inslee attended Seattle's Ingraham High School, where he was an honor-roll student and star athlete, graduating in 1969.
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Jay Inslee played center on his high school basketball team and was the starting quarterback on his football team.
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Jay Inslee met his future wife, Trudi Tindall, at Ingraham during his sophomore year.
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Jay Inslee began college at Stanford University, where he initially intended on studying medicine.
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Jay Inslee returned home and, living in his parents' basement, attended the University of Washington.
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Jay Inslee received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics in 1973.
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Jay Inslee then attended the Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, receiving a Juris Doctor in 1976.
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Jay Inslee first became politically active in 1985, while advocating for the construction of a new high school.
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Jay Inslee ran for the Washington House of Representatives in 1988 after incumbent Republican State Representative Jim Lewis left office.
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Jay Inslee struggled to balance his more progressive ideology with the conservative leanings of Central Washington.
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Jay Inslee's campaign attempted to rectify this by emphasizing his rural upbringing and legal experience supporting local average people, farms and businesses.
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When presented with a potential state budget surplus, Jay Inslee called for a tax cut for the middle class, which Carmichael called irresponsible.
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Jay Inslee claimed Carmichael had supported a sales tax, which she denied.
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Jay Inslee was an energetic and active campaigner, benefiting from retail politics.
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Jay Inslee lost his bid for reelection in the Republican Revolution of 1994 in a rematch against his 1992 opponent, Doc Hastings.
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Jay Inslee attributed his 1994 defeat in large part to his vote for the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
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In Congress, Jay Inslee passed the Yakima River Enhancement Act, a bill long held up in Congress, by brokering a breakthrough with irrigators and wildlife advocates.
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Jay Inslee helped to open Japanese markets to American apples and to fund and oversee the nation's biggest nuclear waste site at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington.
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Jay Inslee moved to Bainbridge Island, a suburb of Seattle, and briefly resumed the practice of law.
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Jay Inslee ran for governor of Washington in 1996, losing in the blanket primary.
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Jay Inslee ran again for Congress in 1998, this time in the 1st congressional district against two-term incumbent Rick White.
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Jay Inslee's campaign attracted national attention when he became the first Democratic candidate to air television ads attacking his opponent and the Republican congressional leadership for the Lewinsky scandal.
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In July 2003, after Gary Locke announced he would not seek a third term as Washington's governor, Jay Inslee briefly flirted with a gubernatorial bid before deciding to remain in Congress.
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In data compiled for the period 2005 to 2007 and excluding individual contributions of less than $200,64 percent of Jay Inslee's donations were from outside the state of Washington and 86 percent came from outside his district.
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The largest interests funding Jay Inslee's campaign were pharmaceutical and health-related companies, lawyers and law firms, and high-tech companies.
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Jay Inslee was awarded a "Friend of the National Parks" award by the National Parks Conservation Association in 2001 for his support of legislation protecting the integrity and quality of the National Park System.
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Jay Inslee was "one of Congress's most ardent advocates of strong action to combat global warming," according to The New York Times.
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Jay Inslee was the first public figure to propose an Apollo-like energy program, in an opinion editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on December 19,2002, and a series of similar pieces in other publications.
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Jay Inslee co-authored Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, in which he argues that through improved federal policies the United States can wean itself off foreign oil and fossil fuel, create millions of green-collar jobs, and stop global warming.
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Jay Inslee has been a prominent supporter of the Apollo Alliance.
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Jay Inslee strongly believes the Environmental Protection Agency should remain authorized to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
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Still an avid basketball player and fan, Jay Inslee identified as a member of "Hoopaholics", a charity group dedicated to "treatment of old guys addicted to basketball and who can no longer jump", as Jay Inslee has often joked.
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Jay Inslee voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the federal health care law.
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In 2011, Jay Inslee voted in favor of authorizing the use of US armed forces in the 2011 Libyan civil war and against limiting the use of funds to support NATO's 2011 military intervention in Libya.
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Jay Inslee was once touted as a candidate for United States Secretary of the Interior and for United States Secretary of Energy during the Presidential transition of Barack Obama.
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On March 20,2012, Jay Inslee left Congress to focus on his campaign for governor of Washington.
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On June 27,2011, Jay Inslee announced his candidacy for governor of Washington.
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Jay Inslee's campaign focused on job creation, outlining dozens of proposals to increase job growth in clean energy, the aerospace industry, and biotechnology.
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Jay Inslee supported a ballot measure to legalize gay marriage, which passed, and opposed tax increases.
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In December 2015, Jay Inslee announced on Washington's public affairs TV channel TVW that he would run for a second term as governor.
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Jay Inslee emphasized increased spending on transportation and education as his primary first-term accomplishment, though he had struggled to work with the Republican-controlled Majority Coalition Caucus in the State Senate.
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On March 1,2019, Jay Inslee announced he would run for president, but kept open the possibility of running for a third term if his presidential campaign failed.
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Several potential Democratic gubernatorial candidates, including state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, and King County Executive Dow Constantine, were all waiting to announce campaigns until Jay Inslee made his decision.
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Jay Inslee became the first Washington governor elected to a third term since Dan Evans was reelected in 1972.
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Finally, in June 2013, Jay Inslee signed a $33.6 billion budget to which both houses had agreed as a compromise.
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On June 13,2013, Jay Inslee signed an additional estate tax into law.
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In December 2013, Jay Inslee was elected to serve as finance chair of the Democratic Governors Association.
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In January 2014, Jay Inslee gave a speech commending machinists who voted to renew Boeing's contract with Seattle area union employees, allowing the company to build its Boeing 777x aircraft in Everett.
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Jay Inslee said the contract would bring Washington to a new industrial plateau and be a turning point for Washington jobs:.
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On February 11,2014, Jay Inslee announced a moratorium on executions in Washington:.
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Jay Inslee cited the high cost of pursuing the death penalty, the randomness with which it is sought, and the lack of evidence that it is a deterrent.
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Jay Inslee began his second term on January 11,2017, proposing full funding of state education and addressing mental health needs while raising worker pay.
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In December 2017 Jay Inslee awarded $6.4 million in grant funding for apprenticeships and career connections to 29,000 youth in 11 communities.
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Jay Inslee served as chair of the Democratic Governors Association for the 2018 election cycle, in which Democrats gained seven net governorships nationwide.
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In December 2018, Jay Inslee announced new legislation aimed at reducing the state's carbon emissions over approximately two decades.
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In January 2019, Jay Inslee said he would provide an expedited process for approximately 3,500 people convicted of small-time cannabis possession to apply for and receive pardons.
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In March and April 2020, Jay Inslee ordered significant social distancing measures statewide, including banning large events, a stay-at-home order, and the closing of all schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jay Inslee responded that he was unaware of the Zone's existence, but called on Trump to "stay out of Washington State's business".
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In November 2020, Jay Inslee was named a candidate for Secretary of Energy, Secretary of the Interior and the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Biden Administration.
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On May 4,2021, Jay Inslee signed a new capital gains tax into law.
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Jay Inslee filed initial paperwork to run for a fourth term in the 2024 election, but announced in May 2023 that he would not run for a fourth term.
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Jay Inslee appointed state senator Steve Hobbs, a Democrat, noting that former Republican governor John Spellman appointed Republican Dan Evans to fill the vacancy created by the death of Democratic US Senator Scoop Jackson in 1983.
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In 2023, Jay Inslee praised the house's passage of a bill banning assault weapons.
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Jay Inslee garnered national attention because of Washington v Trump, a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration's order to ban people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
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Jay Inslee cited climate change as his primary motivation for running, strongly criticizing the Trump Administration's policies.
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In January 2019, reports surfaced that Jay Inslee was beginning to form an exploratory committee, the first step in a campaign.
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Jay Inslee was a dark-horse candidate; initially, he was rarely included in polling for the primary, was not well known outside Washington, and made few trips to early primary states such as Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Jay Inslee announced his candidacy for president on March 1,2019, saying he would focus on combating climate change.
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Jay Inslee's campaign requested a debate focused on climate change.
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Jay Inslee endorsed Joe Biden for the presidency on April 22,2020.